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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Twenty-five percent of the entire Amazon Basin is on legally recognized Indigenous Territories, which are generally better protected than even government parks and reserves. Even less support has reached rightsholder women , despite the essential role of women in forest management and their exclusion from many governance structures.

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Building Power for Healthy Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Tia Martinez In seeking to improve the health outcomes of people in underserved communities, philanthropy’s results have, in general, been disappointing: Socioeconomic and racial injustices run so deep in these communities that strong barriers to change extend well beyond the health care system.

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MNA is searching for our next Executive Director

MNA Association

MNA’s staff team is engaged, collaborative, committed to growth, and passionate about MNA’s unique mission. Board Relations The Executive Director works closely with the board to fulfill its governance responsibilities. Membership The work of the Executive Director is informed by the needs of the Association’s members.

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Leading to Local

Stanford Social Innovation Review

With a growing realization of philanthropy’s power to shape social change agendas—and an aim to make better use of philanthropic funds and better address structural causes of inequity—these practices rebalance power and place decision-making authority closer to the nexus of change.

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Restorative Compensation: Moving from Theory to Practice

NonProfit Quarterly

Nonprofits differ from for-profit businesses or governments; they have different purposes, different revenue sources, and embody different cultural values. Yet nonprofits differ from for-profit businesses or governments; they have different purposes, different revenue sources, and embody different cultural values.